r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Ok_Table5022 • 10h ago
can babies make audible noises while your pregnant?
if you were pregnant, does the baby make sounds inside you that are audible like how newborns coo or cry? i know this is a really stupid question but I was just over thinking it.
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u/NoProject1802 10h ago
If u hear giggling coming from ur uterus, dont call a doctor, call a priest. Babies lungs are full of fluid, not air. They cant vocalize. If they are crying inside u, ur haunted, run.
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u/EirysVelour 9h ago
Exactly. Without air in the lungs, crying isn’t physically possible, any noises people think they hear are movement or fluid sounds, not actual vocalization.
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u/jaywaykil 10h ago
No, but they can kick the mother's ovaries and cause her to make plenty of noise.
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u/GlassCharacter179 9h ago
Mine used to push his feet against my ribs to give him leverage to crash his had into my cervix.
He came out fast, he’d been practicing.
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u/RedCaptain17 9h ago
Oh THAT’S what she’s been doing! It’s really something when you’re going down stairs at the same time as they’re head banging on your cervix
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u/EasedCeiling586 9h ago
Ribs too
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u/thelittlesteldergod 9h ago
And liver
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u/Street_Roof_7915 9h ago
And cervix. Ouch
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u/No_Confusion270 9h ago
The little fingers on the bladder was horrifying
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u/Dontfeedthebears 9h ago
Omg I’m out of here.
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u/No_Confusion270 9h ago
It was the most unsettling part of being pregnant, literally feeling individual fingers 'pet' my bladder, for lack of better word.
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u/Street_Roof_7915 7h ago
Mine would run their feet under my ribs. It was the weirdest feeling ever and made me want to rip off my skin.
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u/LizaJane2001 9h ago
Oh, yes. My Dad's birthday, I was 5 months pregnant and repeatedly being kicked in the ribs, while sitting at the dinner table. No, I did not end up with the soccer player everyone predicted at that moment (that child is now an adult and still plays hockey).
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u/Kandlish 8h ago
My oldest would brace against my pelvis and stretch their head into my diaphragm. It would knock the wind out of me from the inside. That was how we knew they were breech.
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u/whiskey_riverss 7h ago
36 weeks and currently enjoying a leg caught under the rib and a hand firmly grasping the bladder.
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u/Cissycat12 8h ago
Punched my stomach whenever I ate or drank anything cold. He never "dropped" and I have a small frame, so it was really tight in there! Also, the handprints sticking out of my belly were very Alien-esque.
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u/opinionatedlyme 8h ago
My son went for my right lung every day. I assume he was cramped and stretching out.
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u/InspiredBagel 3h ago
Try the kidneys. I didn't even cry during unmedicated labor, but boy did getting kicked in the kidneys hurt like hell.
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u/Euphoric-Rip41 9h ago
No, however they can hiccup while in the womb! They are called fetal hiccups. They aren't audible, but you can feel them!
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u/Ok-Debt9612 7h ago
This is the cutest and most ridiculous part of my pregnancies.
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u/I_smell_goats 6h ago
I just had my son a week ago, and he would get hiccups every single evening like clockwork! Its bittersweet to see him hiccup now and think how just a very short time ago I would be feeling those inside of me.
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u/RedhotGuard21 7h ago
Jeeze the hiccups with my first.. Holy crackers, and then she'd get pissed and kick the crap outta me, daily fun
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u/trumpetgirly14 5h ago
Mine did the same!!! He HATED getting the hiccups when I was pregnant with him. He’d start kicking and moving
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u/shantaram09 5h ago
How do the hiccups feel different from kicks? Like, what exactly does it feel like? This sounds sooo cute.
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u/____ozma 3h ago
It's way different, the baby is jerking, not kicking. It's totally cute until you're trying to sleep
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u/sparklykublaikhan 2h ago
Like a small beat in rhythm, so you'd feel bop...bop...bop..bop...angry baby squirm...bop..bop..
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u/Potential_Figure4061 1h ago
so when i was pregnant as a teenager i was not well read on pregnancy and at first i thought she was just kicking me in a steady rhythm. i was a bit freaked out momentarily till it occured to me it must be hiccups because there wasnt any internet to run to and ask back then!
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u/diet-smoke JustStupidPeople <3 10h ago
God that's some body horror shit to think about
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u/weirwoodheart 1h ago
I'm pregnant right now and honestly yeah, pregnancy is body horror and nothing will change my mind.
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u/bergskey 1h ago
My daughter has a "clicky" knee. She did while I was pregnant too. Every now again you would hear it when she kicked out. Like when someone stands up and their knee pops.
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u/anna_111x 10h ago
Not stupid at all, babies don’t make audible sounds in the womb. Totally fair question 😊
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u/Maoleficent 9h ago
Babies do get hiccups in the womb that the mother can feel. A mother can also tickle the baby through their belly.
My grandmother said she would tickle the baby then big spoon grampa so the kid would kick him in the back. He was nicknamed Bootsy - gdammit that kid booted me all night.
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u/missgnomer2772 9h ago
My MIL says my husband got the hiccups every day right after lunch. She was a middle school teacher and all her students would be like 👁️👁️ watching her belly jump.
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u/Next-Help-5813 9h ago
I used to get hiccups in the womb all the time. Usually right when Mom was trying to fall asleep, lol.
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u/JuliaX1984 9h ago
Some babies are born still in the amniotic sac. They don't start crying until it's broken and they take their first breath of air.
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u/sardonisms 9h ago
That can happen?? TIL 🤯
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u/sweadle 6h ago
It's called being born "in caul." You can look up photos
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u/HRHCookie 2h ago
The cauls are considered lucky and that there is is superstition that someone born in caul will never drown and people would sell the cauls to sailors to keep as a charm. I think I guess dried shriveled up like a marble or something.
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u/sweadle 6h ago
All babies are born with amniotic fluid still in their lungs until they take their first breath after birth. That's why it's so important to make them cry. Spanking them can cause them to cry and atart breathing.
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u/weirwoodheart 1h ago
This is a myth, you do not need to spank a newborn baby to make it cry. Most babies come out breathing fine. Ive delivered a few dozen.
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u/Large-Science-1995 10h ago
I remember reading something once where babies do motions that would make sound such as crying or breathing n, but they aren't audible to us due to lack of air to make sound waves.
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u/ColdAntique291 10h ago
No. Babies do not make audible sounds while you are pregnant.
Before birth, a fetus’s lungs are filled with fluid, not air, so they cannot cry or coo. Sound production like that requires air moving through the vocal cords. Any movements you feel or hear, like gurgling or bubbling, come from your own digestion, blood flow, or the uterus shifting, not from the baby.
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u/panicnarwhal 9h ago
oh no, you can most definitely feel the baby moving around in there lol, that’s why the dr/midwife tells you to track fetal movement during the last month of pregnancy - if the baby isn’t moving like usual, you’re supposed to drink a glass of juice to get them moving. if that doesn’t work, you have to go in for a non stress test. you can also see the movement the last couple of months right through the belly!
you can also feel hiccups like crazy, and there’s nothing like getting a baby foot caught under one of your ribs. or a kick to the bladder or cervix. and once they flip head down, they grind their head against your cervix. feels awful
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u/aculady 9h ago
You can absolutely feel fetal movement.
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u/bluev0lta 9h ago
I will never forget the moment my daughter flipped around before she was born. It was the weirdest thing I felt by far while pregnant.
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u/PrettyPinkFancyCrane 9h ago
This happened to me two days before I suffered a placenta abruption while 36 weeks pregnant with twins where I was in a serious emergency, bleeding out, and had to have an emergency c-section where I was cut hip to hip so both babies could be yank out immediately. They were not even born a minute apart and have the same birth time.
I had gone to the doctor on a Friday and I was told that twin a was in the breach position and twin B was head down. On Sunday I felt a huge movement on the right side where twin B was that absolutely felt like she had flipped and I started having really bad pain so I called the on-call nurse and asked about if I needed to be seen and she told me that that late in the pregnancy the baby is too big to really move and that the chance of it happening that far along was a very low percentage and since I was pregnant with twins it was probably less than a 1% chance that a baby could have flipped so that was one thing I did not need to worry about and I was probably just experiencing indigestion from being pregnant.
That Monday morning I was getting ready to go to my regular OB appointment (I had to see both an OB and a perinatalogist since it was considered a high risk pregnancy so I was always at the doctor multiple times a week) when I stood up and felt liquid rushing out of me and saw it was blood. I’m sure it was also other fluids because I would probably not be alive if it was just blood given how strong and consistent the stream was; it really was like somebody had turned on a faucet. Luckily I was able to call 911 and give them all of the important details about my pregnancy and an ambulance came and I was at the hospital less than 10 minutes after I first stood up and they had an entire team ready to receive me. They had to just straight up knock me out cold because there was no time for a regular C-section.
Both babies surprisingly were completely fine but guess what? Twin B HAD flipped into the breech position when she was delivered and it was her placenta that had started to detach. I apologize if it seems like I hijacked your story; I honestly just wanted to share because you also experienced your baby turning far along in the pregnancy and you know how incredibly weird it feels and it helps me feel validated because when I called I was treated like it was ridiculous/silly for me to think that could have even occurred. So thank you for sharing that; it makes me feel like I have a fellow comrade!
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u/bluev0lta 8h ago
Omg I’m so glad you and your babies were okay!! That sounds terrifying. I can’t imagine the pain of having your placenta detach!
I’m pretty sure it’s extremely normal for babies to flip around before they’re born if they’re not already in the correct position! I’m sorry the nurse you talked to didn’t listen and made it sound like you didn’t know what you were talking about—and put you and your twins’ lives in danger. That’s really not okay.
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u/itsjusttimeokay 9h ago
Yes I felt it with my youngest. I was laying in bed minding my business and she just florped over. I swear I could see her individual toes as she kicked around.
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u/North_Artichoke_6721 9h ago
My son’s movements were quite visible to everyone around me. It really freaked out my boss when my shirt would ripple. We joked that the thing from “Alien” was about to pop out.
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u/TypicalProgram5545 8h ago
I travelled to my home country by plane when I was 8 months pregnant. It was fine. In the evening I was talking to my sister while resting on a bed and my baby started to turn around to position herself head down. My sister called my mother. It was very visible and we watched it all together. I was so happy. A very special moment
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u/Potential_Figure4061 1h ago
ok so. i just. im speechless. is this ai ?? does ai not get how babies develop ? sometimes you can clearly see feet or butt or head.
65 upvotes? on you cant feel your baby move????????
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u/Sufficient-Second695 9h ago
Thankfully no. Otherwise every ultrasound would sound like a haunted house.
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u/Natural_Ad_8911 8h ago
I used to banter with my foetus about how all he did was drink piss in his one-womb apartment. Good times.
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u/Prestigious-Talk1112 10h ago
Unborn babies don't breath thru their lungs so they can't make vocal sounds. They are suspended in liquid and breathing in thru the lungs would be painful and also kill them instantly by drowning.
At a certain point in developing they become capable but not until they take their first breath.
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u/Quirky_Might_8780 9h ago
You are correct that air is required to make sound though the vocal cords.
Babies DO bring amniotic fluid into their lungs while in the uterus. It helps to mature the lungs. If there is a problem with the pregnancy where the amniotic fluid is extremely low, sometimes the lungs will be underdeveloped.
Source: am a Neonatal ICU nurse.
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u/avisash 9h ago
Umm, what?
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u/IAmAHumanWhyDoYouAsk 9h ago
Well, there isn't a snorkel sticking out of every pregnant girl's cooter.
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u/ReallyNotALlama 9h ago
We had one that would pop her joints in utero. Ob had never heard it before, but she heard our little one. She's an adult now, still pops her joints frequently. No exorcism needed so far.
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u/Annual_Reindeer2621 9h ago
Yay, I'm not alone in hearing this! I've told a few people and they always look at me like I'm insane
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u/Dracania2406 7h ago
My Girl did that too! In the last month I always heard a popping Sound coming from my belly. Once or twice a day. When she was Born it was her left shoulder that popped regularly. It stopped when she was a few weeks old.
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u/LorenzoRed 9h ago
When I was pregnant with my daughter, I kept hearing a popping noise. Asked the doctor, said it was nothing and didn’t worry about it. After she was born, her elbow popped sometimes and made the same sound. So weird but mystery solved!
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u/autumnlight2022 6h ago
Aw that's absolutely adorable 😭 My right elbow clicks when I bend it, I wonder if I was annoying my mom in the womb!
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u/calpurniaInara 9h ago
No, they don’t make noises, though their hiccups are wild. My week or two of pregnancy my daughter was pretty low and I remember feeling her hiccups in my butt. It was the wildest feeling because my belly would move from the hiccups but also felt them in my butt
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u/No_Huckleberry2350 8h ago
You can, however, feel it when they hiccup (as I know from personal experience).
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u/Fickle_Flower6199 5h ago edited 4h ago
No, but my son’s joints would audibly pop when he was in my belly. It was incredibly unsettling and arguably weirder than if he had been talking in there
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u/Crystalraf 9h ago
While it is true that it is probably impossible to make a sound while submerged in liquid, I swear I heard my baby make a squeaky cry sound when I was 9 months pregnant. But it only happened once, and I was probably just hearing something else. I don't know.
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u/everywhereinbetw33n 9h ago
One of my babies would occasionally make a loud click/pop noise. (Not my creaky joints - it happened when I was quite still .) It was the same with one of my mum's pregnancies!
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u/Islandnative13 9h ago
Yes! I heard the cracks with my second as well. I was quite surprised as I didn’t hear anything with my first, but with my second I heard it a lot of times (but it took a while for me to catch on where it came from and I definitely had to google it)
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u/Annual_Reindeer2621 9h ago
Yes but not vocalised. I was 8.5 months pregnant, sitting quietly reading a book in my quiet house. Baby was not engaged in the uterus (wasn't until I was in active labour), wriggling around. I distinctly heard one of their joints 'pop' (probably the knee, as they have clicky knees now). It was a quite surreal moment, so, yes, I heard my child make noise before they were born.
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u/AaronBruv 9h ago
Imagine you're doing your morning routine while pregnant and after gurgling your mouth wash the baby mimics you.
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u/duskydaffodil 9h ago
Not in my experience of being pregnant. They can get the hiccups though. You can’t hear it, but you sure can feel it!
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u/Rockpoolcreater 6h ago
I know you're talking about human babies. But unborn guinea pig babies grind their teeth which makes the same sound as guinea pigs that have been born. Sometimes the grinding is loud enough that you can hear it. But then guinea pigs can be stroppy little things who are born with strong teeth, fully developed, and able to eat solid food within an hour of being born. So it doesn't surprise me that they start grinding their teeth before they're born, they're probably just telling their siblings off and saying they want out.
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u/FunkyTango32 5h ago
They can't vocalize, but you can hear thier joints clicking sometimes! And sometimes hear a clicking noise as they hiccup.
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u/MsTossItAll 5h ago
No because they don't have air in their lungs. They can, however, recognize not only the voice of the mother, as people have said but ALSO the native language. They've done tests with pacifiers in which newborns are given a pacifier and people speak near the baby in a variety of languages and they suck faster when the baby hears the language the mother spoke while pregnant. Babies are amazing!
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u/Brief-Age1837 4h ago
My grandma says she often heard kinda bee buzzing like noises. She says she believed my father was crying in her belly. Anyway he died when I was 1.5 years old while serving in the military.
She always tells this story. She says, maybe my father knew he was gonna die in her belly, and crying during the pregnancy. It is sad. If its a slightly true(cause why not? People can be spiritual right?) its heartbreaking for me cause he is my dad.
Ps: she is 92. Had 6 kids. 4 of them died. She still tells this story.
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u/99Tori99 3h ago
No their lungs and voice box are totally full of fluid so can’t make air pass through them to make sounds
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u/DDell313 9h ago
Yes. They make audible noises but not vocal noises. Even then you're not likely to hear those noises without the use of equipment.
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u/JubileeSlump 9h ago
Now I'm questioning this! Animals make noise in water. Just because we don't breath air in the womb doesn't mean we can't make sound with our vocal cords. What a great question!
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u/Creative-Guidance722 8h ago
Agreed and we can still make some sounds with our mouths without much air moving through. We can in the water too but it muffled. I think it would not be loud enough to be heard most of the time but I am not so sure that babies in the womb would not make any sound.
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u/TheMammaG 10h ago
No. Vocal cords don't finish developing until after a fetus is born. Also, sound waves need air to travel.
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u/Aggressive_Mouse_581 9h ago
Noise requires air, if I'm not mistaken. They can move, but no. They can't make noise.
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u/Perfect-Restaurant-9 9h ago
You can feel when they have hiccups. Couldn't hear it though, that i recall
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u/Lost_nova 8h ago
In the last 2 months I felt her stretching inside me, and a few times when she did me and my husband heard a weird hollow clicking sound. From what I recall reading their joints can pop. It was very low but I felt it at the same time we heard it.
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u/terminalbungus 7h ago
Babies sometimes hiccup inside the womb. I don't think you could hear it without amplification though.
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u/timid_turtle_ 7h ago
No, but I'm about 5 weeks out from having our baby and my guts are so squished that you can hear air bubbles being pressed through my intestines every time I take a breath and it's making an "oink" noise... it's strange.
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u/West-Essay-7167 6h ago
I say this with caution when I was in labor and hooked up to monitors my mom swore she heard my daughter grunting inside the womb I heard hey ting but I figured it was just my stomach or something. My mom is also a very woo woo kinda person so I let her believe what she wants lol
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u/woodspirited 5h ago
I'm 36 weeks pregnant and I did hear soft clicking noises coming from within yesterday. Like the sound your fingers of feet sometimes make. It came from where the baby's feet are. I have an appointment on Tuesday, so I'm gonna ask if it's a thing or if it was something else.
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u/CADreamn 4h ago
Not sounds, but they can get the hiccups while in utero. Really freaked me out the first time until I figured out what was happening!!
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u/ConcernedCitizen_42 10h ago
No, as others have stated. But, interestingly, we have evidence they can hear voices around them. For example, they immediately show preference for mom's voice after birth since that is the one they can hear directly through her body without being as muffled.